How To Teach Meditation
Nine steps towards teacher competency:
Learn meditation for yourself. Make sure to practice daily.
Test your knowledge by collaborating with your peers and your teachers.
Ensure that you are not passing along faulty, or egoic, information.Establish a good reputation with a pool of students. (These might be called your “clients” depending on what your profession is.)
Set a regular class time and classroom location, in-person and/or online.
Take attendance as part of offering accountability.
Be a stabilizing presence in your students’ lives by being in attendance yourself.Teach from your lived experience without reading a script. Lead meditations both verbally and non-verbally.
Be an example of living mindfully.
If you are simply reading a script or pushing an agenda, your students will know that and they won’t trust you.End your class on time. This shows respect. If you do need to extend a class, clearly express the reasons why you consciously chose to do so.
Note: These steps are not as easy to accomplish as they look. If you skipped over any of them, re-test, step #2. Then move on to steps 8 and 9.
8. Get Support
Aspiring teachers join Mindful Boston’s collaborative classroom trainings for support and guidance. Our level 4 teacher-training includes creating a portfolio of audio/video, peers’ forums, and building a client base. Contact us for more info or to submit an application form.
You can actually start with this step. Sometimes it’s called step eight, but it’s fine to think of it as step zero- before even doing step one, it’s okay to get support!
9. Collaborate
Established meditation teachers are welcome to join our network and apply to have their meditations featured on our monthly keystone services page.
Professional Services for meditation teachers
Meditation programs for special populations and social service clients, including kids
Networking for mindfulness professionals
